Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 7 hours agoIt is not a mystery how propaganda gets started.
Steel is 1/3 the price as US. Alumnium 1/2. Markets with Futures trading. There’s over 300 car companies in China. They are not all directly subsidized. There is state involved ownership (from factory building) in Steel, but they make money at market prices.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 5 hours ago
They make money because they can write off 30% of the cost of the car being paid from someone else, in one form or another.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Chinese car factories DO NOT get a special discount on steel. You can’t just keep repeating that without source that is not also just baseless repeating of same lie.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 4 hours ago
My source is “Il sole 24 ore”, a respected finalcial newspaper in Italy.
But I am not saying the Chinese car factory get a special discount on steel. What I am saying, based on the investigation from the newspaper I cited, is that CCP pay 20 to 30 % of the total cost to build a car.
Now your sources.